Olympic Games (interesting, actually)

[SigniferOne]

This is too much. The ballista was invented in the court of Dionysius I, and every single post 19th century book on artillery will say as much. Inventions don't just appear in a vacuum, they appear from a confluence of scientific influences, such as existed at the court of Dionysius and in Greece at the time generally.

There's not a single person who takes that Chronicles passage seriously, just as nobody will think that it was right by making Uzziah invent "coats of mail" for his men. Mail was invented in the later part of the 4th century BC.

Instead of using critical thinking to disect useful data from not, you're pilloring every possible source to support your desired conclusion.